Sherri not so polite in presser....

SoonerSpock said:
Probably unreasonable to expect Sherri to keep her roster full at 15 scholarship players at all times because of the complexity of recruiting and the inability to get all the players you target.

However the logic of maintaining a roster of 13-14 quality player is more than reasonable and obtainable with the proper plan in place. Unless we forget Kodi Morrison being recruited from the rowing team in 2009-10 to permit Sherri having enough players to scrimmage in practice we know Sherri's roster has been a little thin on previous occasions when trying to exist with a 12 man roster or less. Basically this is avoidable with the right plan.

Moreover a basketball school of the caliber of OU should have a recruiting strategy with plan A, plan B and plan C wherein there was a quality player available and waiting in the wings on an offer when a targeted #10-20 player is lost in the recruiting battle. To put all of your eggs in one basket is foolish when injuries, suspensions and transfers mount up. And they do mount up on occasions.

It might be as simple as targeting 2/3 players for one scholarship and telling all of them the first player to commit gets the scholarship. It is done all the time in men's basketball and football. I am reasonably certain that UConn, Stanford, Notre Dame and Tennessee practice the same only holding a scholarship for a single player when they are top 5 or labeled "must get" by the coaching staff.
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This was a really great post, I think someone posted here that Imani Wright had a interest in OU but that OU wasn't interested in her? it could have been that we had 2 other guard commits and that the Staff liked what Raigyne Moncrief had to offer more kind of like putting all there eggs in one basket.
 
SoonerBounce13 said:
So if we only need 5 why do we have 8 Sherrie baby?
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First of all with her name all over this site you could learn how to spell it, not knowing is rude. Second one doesn't call an adult woman "baby" without labeling oneself as an @$$h&!#.
 
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BanjoCharley said:
First of all with her name all over this site you could learn how to spell it, not knowing is rude. Second one doesn't call an adult woman "baby" without labeling oneself as an @$$h&!#, @$$h&!#.
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Personal attacks are not permitted.
 
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35TangoTango said:
Personal attacks are not permitted.
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Just so everyone will know, I did not post the words above. I posted what I thought of Soonerbounce, and my words were replaced by what passes for moderators here.

Obviously there is a double standard here. Personal attacks on players or staff (those players and staff that we are presumably fans of) are not only permitted, but indeed encouraged as "true discussion". Attacks on the attackers, however are not permitted.
 
35TangoTango said:
Just so everyone will know, I did not post the words above. I posted what I thought of Soonerbounce, and my words were replaced by what passes for moderators here.

Obviously there is a double standard here. Personal attacks on players or staff (those players and staff that we are presumably fans of) are not only permitted, but indeed encouraged as "true discussion". Attacks on the attackers, however are not permitted.
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Tango, you have been around a long time and know what the rules are. It doesn't matter if you like someone, just keep your comments directed at what was said, not who said it.

I haven't seen anyone attacking players. I have seen some (me too) who disagree with Sherri in some areas and that's fine. Some are offended by anything negative about Sherri and I understand that but, they still have the right to find fault with the coach as long as they are not crossing the line.
 
SoonerNorm said:
Some are offended by anything negative about Sherri and I understand that but, they still have the right to find fault with the coach as long as they are not crossing the line.
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And "Sherrie baby" didn't cross the line?
 
I really hope those complaining never watch a Stoops press conference or game interview. Talk about rude. You wouldn't know what to do with yourself.
 
35TangoTango said:
Just so everyone will know, I did not post the words above. I posted what I thought of Soonerbounce, and my words were replaced by what passes for moderators here.

Obviously there is a double standard here. Personal attacks on players or staff (those players and staff that we are presumably fans of) are not only permitted, but indeed encouraged as "true discussion". Attacks on the attackers, however are not permitted.
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+1000

This board has really deteriorated from what it was when it was first started.
 
BanjoCharley said:
First of all with her name all over this site you could learn how to spell it, not knowing is rude. Second one doesn't call an adult woman "baby" without labeling oneself as an @$$h&!#.
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Sorry I didn't spell sherries name right. And the baby part was referencing a Neil diamond song
 
MsProudSooner said:
+1000

This board has really deteriorated from what it was when it was first started.
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I see this posted every year. Since I was not here when it first started I don't know what it means. I think coaches, refs, and other adults are open for criticism directly. I do not like it when we (I have done it) single out a player.
 
Decide for yourself. Start watching at 3:05 when the question was asked:
http://www.soonersports.com/sports/w-baskbl/recaps/120612aaa.html

Reporter: Can you make it with 8 players? Will you look at any avenue to pick up another body or not?
Sherri: Last time I checked you can make it with five, because that's that have to be on the floor at one time.

IMHO, Sherri had just spent several minutes praising the team's effort and perseverance of enduring all of the injuries and hardships of the season thus far. In the postgame on TV, she said that at halftime, they didn't talk about basketball, but about how they could be the story of the season, enduring and winning with only 8 players.

If you ignore the TV postgame, if you ignore everything that she's said in the postgame presser's first three minutes, even if you ignore all of that, this is how this reporter's question sounded to a "mother hen" like Sherri, IMHO:

Guy: You got 8 bodies now! You wanna acquire a few more bodies to chuck around out there?

or perhaps...

Guy: The 8 that you have are clearly not good enough. You gonna fix this situation by getting some more since your current team clearly isn't good enough?

Sherri's answer, IMHO, was defending her current team, saying that they were good enough, that they weren't just a "body" and that she has enough confidence in her team that she doesn't care about numbers, because dag nabbit, the rules say that all you need is 5 to play!

I think the real reason Sherri gave that guy a cold answer (and that was by no means, IMHO, her patented "death stare" that she shoots at refs and after too many turnovers) is because he used the term "body." Here she is, pouring her heart out in front of the media on how much she loves Whitney and her players... and this guy refers to an OU player as a "body."

Eep. Bad choice of word there, buddy.
 
I did not see the presser but this sounds like a legit question to me. Can you make it with 8 or will you try to add a player?
Answer-- right now we have 8 very good players. If you happen to know of a couple of MDAll American's enrolled at OU I would be glad to talk to them.
The "you only need 5" was off base IMHO.
 
Does anyone know who the reporter was that asked the question?
 
After seeing it, I'll cut Sherri some slack. It WAS a legit question and wasn't asked rudely. And he has a point. After seeing it, I don't think Sherri was too rude or anything
 
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